MOLECULAR MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY

Principal Investigator

Marni Boppart Sc. D.

Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
Full-Time Faculty, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Faculty, Carle-Illinois College of Medicine
Affiliate Faculty, Cell and Developmental Biology


Prof. Boppart obtained her bachelor degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, and her masters degree in Cell Biology from Creighton University, Omaha, NE. She received her Sc.D. in Applied Anatomy and Physiology from Boston University and completed research for her degree at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School. Her postdoctoral work was completed in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.


Recreation: Running, hiking, traveling with my family, playing with my dog “Sushi”


Dr. Boppart's CV

Graduate Students & Postdocs

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Ray Spradlin

Post Doc

Research: Investigating the effects of circulating extracellular vesicles after resistance exercise on skeletal muscle hypertrophy and regrowth.

Recreation: Triathlon training and plan design, sleight of hand card magic, reading, college football, Olympic sports (specifically track and field), whiskey

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Sung Jun Choi

Ph. D. Candidate

Research: Investigating the extent to which pericytes are required for recovery of muscle mass after disuse.

Recreation: Basketball, playing violin, and cooking

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Alex Fliflet

Ph. D. Candidate

Research: Investigating the effects of circulating extracellular vesicles after chronic endurance training on neural plasticity and muscle adaptation.

Recreation: Cooking, hiking, kayaking

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Wei-Chun Kao

Ph. D. Candidate

Research: Investigating the cellular origin of circulating extracellular vesicles after endurance training and the contribution of these EVs to exercise-induced neuroplasticity.

Recreation: Weightlifting, cooking

Undergraduates

Jayna Burger

Senior, Kinesiology and MCB

Recreation: Illinois athletics, swimming, traveling

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Michael Knipp

Senior, KCH

Recreation: Basketball, traveling, weightlifting

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Manasi Reddy

Senior, MCB

Recreation: Running, hip hop, cooking, reading

Maks Samatov

Junior, Biochemistry

Recreation: Weightlifting

Aaliyah Gaffey

Junior, Aerospace Engineering

Recreation: Scuba diving, working out, chess, hanging out with friends

Andrew Handzel

Sophomore, Chemical Engineering

Recreation: Traveling, cooking, weightlifting, hanging out with friends

Alumni

Michael Munroe

Ph. D.

Ziad Mahmassani

Ph.D.

Yair Pincu

Ph.D.

Koyal Garg

Ph.D.

Mike De Liso

Ph.D.

Heather Hunstman

Ph.D.

Kai Zou

Ph.D.

Slav Dvoretskiy

Ph.D.

Yu-Fu Wu

Ph.D.

Samuel Lapp

M.S.

Gabriela Garcia

M.S.